Date: 1981-09-27
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: Utah Phillips Benefit Concert for the Canadian Farmworkers Union and the Vancouver film premiere of A Time to Rise (Uthan Da Vaila), co-directed by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro, and attended by 700 people at John Oliver High School, Vancouver.
Date: 1981-09-27
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: Utah Phillips Benefit Concert for the Canadian Farmworkers Union and the Vancouver film premiere of A Time to Rise (Uthan Da Vaila), co-directed by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro, and attended by 700 people at John Oliver High School, Vancouver.
Date: 1981-09-27
Description: CFU cultural program for the Vancouver film premiere of 'A Time to Rise (Uthan Da Vaila)' attended by 700 people at John Oliver High School.
Date: 1981-09-27
Name(s): [Photograher unknown]
Description: Utah Phillips Benefit Concert for the Canadian Farmworkers Union and the Vancouver film premiere of A Time to Rise (Uthan Da Vaila) attended by 700 people at John Oliver High School, Vancouver. Toronto artists Carole Conde and Karl Beveridge's poster portraying southern Ontario tobacco pickers announces the new CFU-National slogan 'Good Enough To Work...' that references the lack of workplace legal rights for farm workers across Canada, including the right to organize into a union - one of the…
Date: 1986 to 1991
Name(s): Binning, Sadhu
Description: Vancouver Sath was started as an informal discussion forum by a group of politically conscious Punjabi writers and community activists. Formed in 1983 by a collective of Punjabi writers from the Lower Mainland, BC.
Date: 1988-03-06
Name(s): Gurmail
Description: March 6 to April 10, 1988, Vancouver Sath Theatre collective performs two plays 'A Crop of Poison' and 'Picket Line' (both written by Sadhu Binning and Sukhwant Hundal) for the CFU cultural programme called Picket Line Tour. Over 1,000 people attended four venues in the Fraser Valley. Funded by Canada Council Explorations Grant. 'A Crop of Poison' (Jahar di Fasal) is about farmworkers and the health and safety of pesticide use. Vancouver Sath, formed in 1983, is a collective of Punjabi writers…
Date: 1988-03-06
Name(s): Gurmail
Description: March 6 to April 10, 1988, Vancouver Sath Theatre collective performs two plays 'A Crop of Poison' and 'Picket Line' (both written by Sadhu Binning and Sukhwant Hundal) for the Fraser Valley CFU cultural programme called Picket Line Tour. Over 1,000 people attended four venues. Funded by Canada Council Explorations Grant. 'A Crop of Poison' (Jahar di Fasal) is about farmworkers and the health and safety of pesticide use. Vancouver Sath, formed in 1983, is a collective of Punjabi writers from…
Date: 1988-03-06
Name(s): Gurmail
Description: March 6 to April 10, 1988, Vancouver Sath Theatre collective performs two plays 'A Crop of Poison' and 'Picket Line' (both written by Sadhu Binning and Sukhwant Hundal) for the CFU cultural programme called Picket Line Tour. Over 1,000 people attended four venues in the Fraser Valley. Funded by Canada Council Explorations Grant. 'Picket Line' is based on the Hoss Farm women mushroom workers who joined the CFU and fought to improve working conditions. Vancouver Sath, formed in 1983, is a…
Date: 1992-12-01
Description: Sadhu Binning shares his reflections on the tenth anniversary of the Vancouver Sath Literary and Cultural Association --the punjabi writers group and community activists who produced several theatre plays that performed at CFU events in the Fraser Valley, BC. Several members worked as CFU organizers and many Vancouver Sath members were regular CFU volunteers. Also, poem 'Going Home' by Phinder Dulai.
Date: 1987-09-01
Name(s): Berggold, Craig
Description: This article and interview profile the Punjabi literary arts group Vancouver Sath, and its two founders Sadhu Binning and Sukhwant Hundal. The focus is theatre and video productions and organizing farmworkers in the Fraser Valley, British Columbia.
Date: 1986-02-01
Description: The drawing is based on a photograph by Craig Berggold.
Date: 1979 to 1985
Name(s): Binning, Sadhu
Description: Excerpts from Watno Dur Magazine.
Date: 1981-01-01
Name(s): Boal, Sarwan, Cavanaugh, Judy
Description: A early 1981 CFU leaflet.
Date: 1983-06-03
Description: The BC Federation of Labour and the Canadian Labour Congress support the CFU during a period of conflict and violence against the CFU. Organization 'Farmworkers Defense' was a front for the far-left Communist Party Marxist-Leninist (CPC-ML), other front organizations included the'General Farm and Allied Workers Union' and the 'People's Front Against Racist and Fascist Violence'. The exact date of this leaflet is to be determined. Circa 1983.
Date: 1983-02-17
Name(s): Paris, Charles
Description: This 1983 report, based on May 21, 1982 public hearings, was, at the time, an historic recognition by one agency of the BC provincial government of systemic legislative racism in government policies. The CFU brief outlined stopping all legislative discrimination against farmworkers and was supported by 28 organizations. The Commission accepted the gist of the presentations which called for the equality of farm workers before the law. Recommendations included; all exclusions of farmworkers be…
